Is there a small command-line utility that can be run from an installer to
add tabs and items to the Visual Studio Toolbox?  It needs to work with both
Visual Studio 2005 and 2003.  
Please don't ask me to download the 185MB VSIP SDK.  I've seen some sample

After using the wizard to create a new AddIn under VS 2005,  which now
appears on the Tools menu as "View DB", how can I now:
1) Add a submenu item to the "View DB" item
2) Add the standard ?symbol to the end of the "View DB" row to indicate that

I created an AddIn, which creates a Toolwindow. After installing the new
AddIn, the ToolWindow is undocked and I doch it manually. Afterwards, when I
start Visual Studio 2005 the ToolWindow is sometimes docked and sometimes
not. Does anybody know, where Visual Studio serialize ...

Does anyone have a link to a good Web site explaining how to develop an
addins for Visual Studio 2005 ?
I cannot find out how to add a custom icon to my toolbar.

I have made an add-in for Visual-Studio 2005 that adds a toolbar to the UI.
The toolbar works fine, but when I click the arrow pointing down next to the
toolbar and click “Add or remove Buttons” my toolbar name is disabled(Grayed
out) and I can not get the dropdown where I can ...

I am editing the UpdateCommand of a typed dataset's tableadapter, and
noticing that the parameter dbtypes keep changing on me.  I've isolated the
problem down to these repeatable steps that occur even in Sql Server 2005
Express Edition: